Inside Red China
October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day festivities and celebrations. Two intrepid New Zealand film-makers - Rudall and Ramai Te Miha Hayward - are there, documenting the life and times of communist China. The distinction of being the first English speaking foreigners to film unfettered in communist China was significant. The invitation to visit China was facilitated through the New Zealand China Friendship Society. They filmed in Canton, Shanghai, Peking (Beijing) and Wuhan. It was a small window of opportunity for Westerners to gaze on a country that was largely a mystery to the outside world since 1949. The unfortunate irony was that two of the documentaries; “Wonders of China”, and “Inside Red China”, were considered to be communist propaganda, and were not distributed outside of New Zealand.
Cast
Ramai Hayward
Self
Mao Zedong
Self
You may also like
D'un Céline l'autre
1969
Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock
2017
Le phénomène Godlywood : quand l'Église fait son cinéma !
2024
My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026
Fruit Farm
2025
Bird's Nest - Herzog & de Meuron in China
2008
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
1988
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
2019
Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story
2020
Keeping It Up: The Story of Viagra
2023